Watch

commissioned though development funds from Portland Green Cultural Projects programme work in dance

WATCH 2010 Ben Hole, Leah Thorn
3’20

Watch explores the centrality of memory to Jewish identity and the impact of dementia on a father/daughter relationship.

Drawing on poet Leah Thorn’s experiences of caring for her father, ‘watch’ is a deeply personal and moving work, reflecting the multi-layered nature of dementia through poetry, story-telling, dance, still photographs, original familial archive and found footage.

Interweaving and drawing together these individually authored elements is an original soundscape by Jonathan Walton [ex Oi-Va-Voi] and Moshik Kop [sound designer for My Amulet].